Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 25, 1921, Page 8

a hi 1 2 5 le ool e2 c 1 {PAGE EIGHT (0 BODIES IN SUBMERGED WRECKAGE OF GIANT LINER (Continued end Pulham. The ship was behaving finely and there was not a sign of weakness anywhere. =*“We drove out over the sea again aia as the fog continued bad we flew along the coast until Wednesday aft- @rnoon, when we sighted land at Hull. ‘We then flew across to Howden, Where it was decided to land at 6:30 PD: m., so we sailed over Hull again ‘We encircled Hull twice and the gpeed trial was completed without a hitch. “A test of the ship's control then began. I was at the lower rudder, Proceeding back to the tail and had just reached the cockpit when there WSs a tremendous crash. The gird @fs amidships broke and the ship split {fF halves. GRAPHICALLY RELATES DETAILS OF MISHAP. “Both the tail and the nose imme @iately pointed downward and the halves started to descend toward the Humber. “I certainly cannot describe my sensation, but I thought my time hed come. “I made a rush for the tail to get a Parachute, but I found two of my English comrades, Harry Bateman and Walter Potter were already there. I knew there was only one chute there tor three of us. Bateman had the chute and jumped, buit it fouled nd he hung to the tail of the diri- gible. “Both Potter and I started to run forward for other parachutes, but dust as I got in the keel there came &n explosion of either a petrol tank or hydrogen, and flames immediate- ty Began’ to swrep the forward part of our half of the ship. “What was happening to our com- rades in other paris of the dirigible I don’t know. Most of the officers ahd crew were amidships, either seat- @4 or lying in iheir bunks when the @irders broke. At Kast on? man @fopped through the gap male by the break. Possibly others did, but prob- ably most of them rolled forward ‘when the airship's nose went down. “T ran back to the tail to get away from the fire in the bag. Bateman, Potter and = got into the cockpit. By this time the gas was becoming de- pleted and the ship was shooting down rapidly. The forward half had already beaten us toward the water. We could not vse a chute then. as we were too low—only a few hundred feet up. SAVES LIFE BY LEAVING WRECKAGE. “I saw we were going to land in the: water, so I climbed on the fab- ric forward of the tail cup. I could jot tell how fast we were falling but when I thought we were going to strike, I jumped. “I was surprised to find my feet striking the bottom. I had landed in four feet of water near shore. Both iy comrades stuck to the ship and continued to cling ito her as she struck. I managed to scramble aboard the wreckage, and the three of us Were picked up by a tug.” NEWS FROM HULL TIGHTENS GRAVITY. LONDON, Aug. 25.—(By The Asso- elated Press)—The news today from Hull served in nowise to lighten the weight of the tragedy which occurred there late yesterday when the diri- gible ZR-2 collapsed in mid-air and plunged to destruction with a loss of 44 lives. ‘Among the five survivors of the 49 Wen who embarked on the airship for the voyage which ended so disastrous- ly is only one American, Norman 0. Walker, of Commerce, Texas, whom the admiralty erroneously reported tyst night had died after being res- cued, Walker had a marvelous es- cape without serious injury and was able to tell a moving story which throws much light upon the destruc- tion of the great airship. There is no trace of Air Commodore Maitland, nor has anyone survived who is able to give an account of the circumstances in which the death of this high officer of the British air| wervice occurred. He may have been ‘among the officers and men who, ac-| to Walker's story, were Jounging in the cabin when the ship Broke in two and fell without giving tie airmen time to try to save them- Saves. The others apparently were Killed by the explosions which fol- lowed the initial collapse. =.Flight Lieut. A. H. Wann, who was ‘ne of the British survivors and who emphasizes the fact that he was in| sole charge of the dirigible, confirms the general belief that some of the ship's girders crumpled while the craft was making a turn. This was the opinion of many of the spectators of the wreck, who described one side ef the ship as sagging before the flames appeared. =On of the tragic features of the exent is furnished by the bereav: ment of the British wives of Amer- fean naval men attached to the party which was to have navigated the ZR2 across the Atlantic. Some of them hurried ‘o Hull as roon as the news of the disaster reached Howden, the airship’s base, where they had been stopping. Others of them are believed to be en shipboard on the way to America. BROKEN GIRDER CHARGED WITH RESPONSIBILITY. HOWDEN, England, Aug. 25.—(By The Associated Pross)}—The cause of the disaster to the ZR-2, according to the best information obtainable here, the base of tle destroyed dirigible, was the breaking of a longitudinal &irder amidship, made of an alum- fnum alloy, cutting the airship in halves. “An explosion of either hydrogen or petrol occurred immediately after the girder gave way, and flames burst through the structure, but the. ex- Plosion, it is declared, was not the emuse of the breaking of the airship, GREAT FUNERAL SERVICE IS BEING ARRANGED. *=LONDON, Aug. 25.—The American and British victims of the disaster/ing perfectly. to the ZR-2 at Hull last evening, will be ,accorded a great public funeral Probably in London, it is considered certain. The air ministry today had the propect under advisement and an’ from Page 1) announcement regarding it was ex- pected at any time. Meanwhile, all England, profound- ly stirred by the destruction of the giant dirigible—the greatest of all air disasters—is giving expression to its deep feeling of mourning for the vic- tims and sympathy for those be- reaved. In London the atmosphere today was somewhat akin to that which followed the recelpt of news of @ serious disaster during the war days, At the air ministry, which yes- terday was a beehive of activity with elaborate preparations for the trans- Atlantic flight, there was today a sensible depression on all sides. It was at Howden, Hull, Leeds and neighboring towns, however, where lived the wives and relatives of many of the men whose lives were snuffed out by the disaster, that the loss was most keenly felt. In these places, too, were the English brides of nine of the American enlisted men, who came to England for the trans-oceanic flight. These young women haf been eagerly awaiting the time cf the Zi-2's start for America and had ex- pected soon to follow on board a gov- ernment transport to their new homes. LEGION MEMBERS ARE AMONG THOSE KILLED. The American dead included two members of the American Legion, Lieut. Little and Lloyd 3. Crowell, mechanic. Several of the British vie- tims were members of the British le- gion of former service men. Both these organizations will be represented at the funeral services. As the dirigible was still British property, not having yet been turned ovér to the American authorities, all investigations of the calamity will be supervised by the British air min- istry. Foremost among the expressions of cendolence was one from King George, vio telegraphing from Bal- moral to Air Marshal Trenchard at the air ministry said: “I am shocked and grieved to hear of the terrible disaster which has. be- fallen airship R-38 (the British num- ber of the big dirigible), resulting in the loss of many valuable lives of American and British, with the rela- tives of whom I sympathize. I shall anxiously await further informa- tion, (Signed) “GEORGE, R. I. “Chief of Royal Air Forces.” | Commander Brooke Ropham, of the r ch department, and Major Coop- er of the investigation branch cf the air ministry, have gone to Hull to in- vestigate the cause of the disaster. Lord Lee of Fareham, first lord of the admiralty, this morning tele- phoned Commander Harry L. Pence, naval attache at the American em- bassy, expressing his regret at the loss of American lives in the airship disaster. He extended, on behalf of himself und the admiralty, condol- ences to their bereaved relatives. DESTRUCTION OF LINER DOESN’T BLAST HOPE. WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—Despite the loss of the ZR-2 before actually be- coming naval property, officers of the naval bureau of aeronautics confi- dently hope the navy will be permitted to continue its rigid airship program. They point out that America al- jready has a gigantic hangar at Lake- \hurst N. J., completed at a cost of |$2,000,000 and capable of housing two |ships of the size of the R2 as well as jother complete facilities. | Although appropriations were | stopped before ZR-1 was completed, lthe necessary structural material is already manufactured and awaiting jassembly, much of the envelope has |been fabricated and nearly all the |material for her completion purchased |at a cost of about a million dollars. | For months the naval gas extract- |ing plant at Fort’ Worth, ‘Texas, has |been storing helium gas and sufficient jgas of this type has been assured to |fill the envelope of a ship as large as |the lost ZR-2. | Plans for the ZR-1 call for an air- |ship of slightly smaller size than the | Zr a length of 670 feet, diameter labout 80 feet, and gas capacity of ap- |proximately 2,000,000 cubic feet. The jcost is estimated at $2,500,000. While | designers of the ZR-2 departed some- |what from the structural lines of the Zeppelins, the naval designers laid their plans for a ship incorporating |the latest developments of the oris- Jinal rigid builders, the Germans, of bose plans more than 100 were filed nuere tor retes~ re" | The reports that the ZR-2 fell in |two pieces tended to cause belief in |naval circles that structural failures |were the prime cause of the disaster, {brought about perhaps by too sudden a strain on some weak part. it is not thought that the navy w' deavor to purchase from England ny of her remaining rigid airships, but that construction in America w! be undertaken if others are author- jized. |MOST OF AMERICANS | KILLED IN EXPLOSION. HULL, England, Aug. 25.—(By The Associated Press--—Most of the Amer- | ican members of the crew of the ill- fated dirigible ZR-2 were killed by the explosion which followed the buck- ling and snapping of girders amid- ships, declared Flight Lieut. A. H. | Wann, in command of the raft as | navigating officer at the time of the | disaster, in a statement to The As- sociated Press today. Lieut. Wann said the ship had run beautiful at 60 knots an hour, and that he had reduced the speed to 50 knots when there came a violent cracking sound. He thought several jot the girders broke. The whole thing ; happened in five seconds. | “There was no. sign of anything wrong when we passed over Hull,” he added, “but everything happened aft- erward. rt was in sole control at the time.” “Before the moment of accident,” said Lieut. Wann, whose injuries are not serious, “‘the craft had been sail- She had been passing through various difficult tests and the speed had been reduced when sud- denl; while crossing the broad estu- ary of the Humber, I heard the grind- ing and cracking of girders and the Secretary Denby In |REHR BATTLES GAMELY AFTER His Own Corn Patch ‘Secretary by is vacation on his farm at Clintonville, Mich. airship pitched forward, from an even ‘keel. “As soon as humanly possible, I emptied the water ballast to enable the craft to resume its normal posti- tion, but at this instant a tremendous explosion occurred. The great ship seemeé to halt for a moment, and then it dropped like a rock. ‘The con- cussion threw me down in the navi- gator’s car, where I was pinned by the wreckage. The section of the ‘craft in which I was riding remained above the water when she plunged into the Humber, and I was rescued after being imprisoned for 15 nfinutes. That is all I am able to sa Lieutenant Wann denied local re- ports that he had heroically plunged the ZR-2 into the river rather than on the shore, which was crowded by thousands of spectators. Tle disas ter occurred so quickly, he said, that ‘any such action was impossiible. FAMOUS BANDIT ASKS FOR HELP (Continued from Page 1.) guard accompanies him everywhere he goes. MEXICAN FEDERALS RUNNING DOWN BANDI ELPASO, Texas, Aug. 25.—Mexican rurales have run down Domingo Dom inquer, said to be a bandit leader, and another man said. to be a bandit, named Tovar, and are still pursuing members of a band who are said to have killed Bunk Spencer, known a Stevenson Bunk, a -half-breed, and Bennet Boyd, 18-year-old El Paso boy, on the Ojitas ranch, in Chihuahua, near the Sonora boundary line, Au- gust 18. ‘This information was brought here this morning by travelers from the vicinity of the Ojitas ranch, who made a report of the killings to O. P. Brown former bishop of the Morman church in Chihuahua. The rurales, known as rural police, who are employed by the Palomas Land and Cattle company, but who hold commissions under the Chihua- hua state government, according ‘to Mr. Brown, captured Dominquez and executed him. Tovar was killed, it is reported, in a running fight. The rurales are still pursuing the bandits, and have driven them near the American boundary. A general alarm has been sent to all ranches in that section, the travelers reported, with the request to be on the lookout for the bandits. News has also been sent along the border to American im- migration officials and United States army outposts to the effect that the bandits, said to number eight men, are approaching the border. Request is made by the rurales to intercept them if they attempt to cross the line, The half-breed is said to have been murdered by the bandits while he was asleep. The El Paso boy was killed on the ranch the next day. It is said that Bunk had given in- formation about the bandits, who since had been determined to kill him. $< Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Watson have moved into their pretty new home on South Lincoin street, which has just recently been completed. SEE BEN” “5 HB K ape K K H H K K Branch B # 112 West Midwest Ave. = Phone 74. H Ks darola Kramer, Realtor K 4 Manager H K H . a K a rooming house K % proposition, with- cut equal in the H K : K H__ “ity, awaits your in- H K vestigation at this a office. K H H K K Specializing in Irrigated Fy Ranches, Patented Dry K Farms, Homesteads, Re- K linquishments and ‘Bus- iness Opportunities. K H Notary Public H K K HKHKHKHKH KHKHKHKH ver. with Harker in the lead Rehr adopted a Mahy and brilliant style in an ef- fort to overcome his opponent's play. In making a return he fell and dis- located his knee. Heedless of the pain resulting from the accident Rehr con- TT =i = = = =, Peoria, I W. Sc Raab tel the .eodblen Al BIRMINGHAM, Ala.. Aug. 25—Acting at the Foauest of _ local authorities today arrested person Pledro Gus. During the early part of the match, tinued to play to avoid giving the|™atches schedu! yesterday were Rath Gtophensen early this month, ix sald A THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1921. | eidea upon by delegates assembled | sleep puts a strain on the human body Che Casper Daily Cribune lead as he had done at the beginning ‘ of the first set and again Rehr dis-|here from provincial labor bodies,|from which ft takes at least fifteca played gameness and nosed “ut Hark-| they announced. days to recover. er 7-5 in a hard fought battle, A ge ——— Harker will be remembered here as ‘The loss of nights” ‘The Eskimo cats no salt. the’man who finally worsted Rehr in the play off of the Wyoming singles championship. 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